Re: [SLUG] To ADSL or Not to ADSL

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My own experience in the Murray region is that Telstra had _big_ troubles
in Vic with ADSL up until a about 6 weeks ago.  Since then it has become
very stable.

Flow Comms in this region have had _big_ trouble in the past 2 weeks,
apparently in their own circuits.

On 21 Jun 2002, andrew fries wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:01, DaZZa wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Rodney Sommerville wrote:
> >
> > > That is the Question???
> >
> > Not. At least until someone gets off their backside and forces the prices
> > down.
> >
> > Even more not since Telstra started capping their "unlimited" accounts at
> > 3 gig.
>
> If the question is about Telstra, naturally the answer is always NOT.
> But what about others? I'd be very interested in opinions about
> alwaysonline, netspace and pacific internet - they all seem on the verge
> of reasonable, and I'd love to hear how they work in practice, and how
> they play with Linux... it's their home ADSL services I'm talking about
> here, not business.
>
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